In the left menu, click the "STORAGE" icon (Fig 1). This will list any storage accounts you currently have for this subscription.

Fig 1

To create a new Storage Account, click the [NEW] button (Fig 2) at the bottom left of the portal and select DATA SERVICES | STORAGE | QUICK CREATE from the popup menu (Fig 3).

Fig 2

Fig 3

The QUICK CREATE dialog displays, as shown in Fig 4.

Fig 4

At the URL field, enter a name for your storage account. This name must be a combination of only numbers and lowercase letters and it must be unique among storage accounts because it will be accessible publicly with a name like https://accountname.core.windows.net

where accounttname is the name you assign to the storage account. The portal will let you know if you enter a name this is not allowed or that is already taken.

At the LOCATION/AFFINITY GROUP field, select a region in which to create your storage account. (Affinity groups are no longer necessary and have been deprecated.)

At the REPLICATION field, select the type of replication you would like for your storage account. Azure always makes extra copies of your storage accounts, but you control how much redundancy and where that redundancy is stored. Options are: